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SHOE BLAGKING BOX. No. 330,146. Patented Nov. 10, 1885..

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS M. OSBORN, OF PORT CHESTER, NEW YORK.

-SHOE-BLACKING BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of'Letters Patent No. 330,146, dated November 10, 1885.

Application filed September 14, 1885. Serial No. 177,128.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. OSBORN, of Port Chester, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Blacking Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of my improved shoe-blacking boxes, the cover being removed. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same, taken through the line a: 00, Fig. 1, and showing the cover in place.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of blacking-boxes in which the blacking to be used is forced through an aperture in a plate fitted in the blacking-box; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

A represents the body of the shoe-blacking box, in the sides of which is formed a spiral groove.

B is the box-cover, which has a spiral groove in its sides corresponding with the groove 0 the box-body A.

G is a box, which is made of such a size as to fit into the main box A, and has a spiral groove in its side corresponding with and fitting into the spiral groove of the said main box A and of the cover B.

The bottom of the intermediate box, 0, is perforated with numerous small holes, D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

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In using my improved box the main box A is nearly filled with blacking, and the intermediate box, 0, is screwed into the said main box until its perforated bottom rests upon the said blacking. The cover Bis then screwed upon the upper edge of the intermediate box, O. \Vhen the blacking is to be used, the cover B is removed, and the intermediate box, 0, is screwed down into the main box A, which causes the blacking in the said main box to ooze through the perforations D in the bottom of the said intermediate box, 0. The blacking is then removed from the bottom of the box 0 with a brush and applied to the shoes in the ordinary manner.

WVith this construction only the quantity of blacking required for use at a time need be forced into the intermediate box, 0, so that the application of too much blacking to the shoes and the consequent waste will be avoided.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a blacking-box consisting of the body A, having a spiral groove formed in its sides, the intermediate box, 0, fitting in the body A, and having a series of perforations in its bottom and a spiral groove in its sides corresponding to the groove of the body, and the cover B, fitting upon the box 0, and having a spiral groove in its sides corresponding to the groove of the said box 0, as set forth.

FRANCIS M. OSBORN.

Witnesses:

HERBERT G. HENDERSON, STEPHEN WILLsTooD. 

